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KOVA
iPhone + Apple Watch · no account to start

Every Run,On the Record.

Kova records on the wrist and reads on the phone: route, splits, heart rate, climb. Three things it does that a stopwatch cannot — race you against the runner you actually are, tell two people where you are, and stay legible at 5 a.m.

Free to record, forever. Pro adds the derived layer · $3.99 a month or $29.99 a year, billed by the App Store.

One run · 6.24 km · Tuesday, 06:14
First Two Kilometres, Easy.
Then the Climb Takes the Pace.
Last Two, You Take It Back.

Two kilometres at conversational effort, heart rate settling into Z2. The watch records; nothing asks for your attention.

Distance
0.00
km
Pace
5:44
/ km
Heart
128
bpm
Climb
0
m up
00:00
Segment Best
01 · Ghost

Race the Run You’re Capable Of

A personal best is one good day. The projected ghost is built from your last eight runs on the route — pace, heart-rate drift and the climb — so the runner beside you is the one your training actually supports.

Split for split
The ghost runs the recorded run exactly as it happened, kilometre by kilometre. No smoothing.
Haptics only
Ahead or behind arrives as a tap on the wrist. You never have to look down mid-effort.
Your own data
Nothing is compared against strangers. There is no leaderboard to lose.
02 · Beacon

Two People Know Where You Are

Name two contacts once. When you start a run they get a link — a live map, your last ping and how long you have been out. They do not need the app, an account, or a phone like yours.

The rule
The link dies when you finish. Location is relayed while you run and stored nowhere afterwards — there is no history for anyone to browse, including us.
Check-in
Stop moving for five minutes and the watch asks if you are alright. It asks again at fifteen.
SOS
If you do not answer, your contacts get a critical alert — it sounds through silent and Focus, on its own notification thread.
03 · Night mode

Built to Be Read in the Dark

Most runs happen before sunrise or after work. Night mode drops the map, kills the accent colour and doubles the numerals, so a glance costs you nothing and the screen never blinds you at a crossing.

Automatic
Follows sunset at your location, or stays on if you prefer it always.
Lock screen + Live Activity
Pace and distance without unlocking, in the Dynamic Island and on the watch face.
04 · The portal

Free Is What Happened.
Pro Is What It Means.

Every run you record is charted on the web for free — totals, splits, bests, routes. Pro adds the derived layer: what the training is doing to you, measured against your own baseline rather than anyone else’s.

Open the Portal
Fitness · fatigue · form
Twelve weeks of chronic load against acute load, and the gap between them.
Load ratio
Seven-day volume over your 28-day mean, against the 0.8–1.3 band.
Efficiency at matched HR
Pace on runs within three beats of your median effort, grade-adjusted.
Zone distribution
Time in Z1–Z5 week by week, and whether your training is polarised.
Heart-rate drift
Cardiac drift per run over 8 km — the runs long enough to show it.
Against your average
Every stat on every run, next to your trailing twelve-week figure.
Bests, routes, gear
PB progression per distance, route-by-route comparison, shoe mileage.
Body and form
Weight, resting heart rate, cadence and stride length as trends.

No model guesses your effort. Every Pro figure is arithmetic over numbers you recorded, printed with the assumption it rests on so you can disagree with it.

05 · Pricing

Two Tiers. No Ads. No Third Party.

Free
$0
forever
Unlimited recording on iPhone and Apple Watch. Route, splits, heart rate, climb, personal bests, Ghost against your own runs, Beacon, night mode, Apple Health sync, and the whole free web portal.
Get Kova
Pro · annual
$29.99
/ year · USD
or $3.99 a month
Everything free, plus the derived layer: training load and load ratio, efficiency at matched heart rate, zone distribution, HR drift, PB progression, route comparison, gear mileage, body trends, and every run measured against your twelve-week average.
Start Pro
Billed by the App Store. Cancel in Settings. Restore purchases follows the Apple ID that bought it. The annual plan works out at $2.50 a month.

Do I Need the Phone on a Run?

No. The watch app records on its own with GPS and heart rate, and syncs when you are back in range. Beacon needs a connection to relay pings.

Does Beacon Keep My Location?

Only while the run is live. The link expires at the finish and the pings are discarded — the route stays in your own history, nowhere else.

What Happens If I Stop Pro?

Every run and every recorded number stays yours and stays visible. The derived charts stop updating; nothing is deleted and nothing is held hostage.

Can I Export?

GPX and CSV per run, or the whole archive at once from the portal. Runs also write to Apple Health as workouts.

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